Preface
Introduction
1. Objective
Subjective
and Collective Dimensions of the Quality of Life
2. Variations in the Quality of Urban Life Among Cities and Regions
3. The Urban Disamenity Revisited
4. Problems of Measuring the Quality of City Environments
5. Local Government
the Property Tax
and the Quality of Life: Some Findings on Progressivity
6. Justifiable Government Intervention in Preserving the Quality of Life
7. The Quality of Life and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis
8. Property Values and the Benefits of Environmental Improvements: Theory and Measurement
9. Estimating Access Values
10. Neighborhood Externalities
Economic Clubs
and the Environment
11. The Treatment of Externalities in National Income Statistics
12. Conceptions of the Quality of Life in Theory and Practice
13. Toward a New Civic Calculus
14. Measuring the Quality of Life of the Elderly
15. Reflections on the Quality of Working Life